* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #795 / Revived #015 on 2023 07 12 *

Cartesian indeed as been used by Escher and Fibonacci.

The original image is pretty extraordinary due to its odd name and construction, and the contents of the stacked booths. But the manipulated one i super fun, rolling the whole affair up into a crystal marble with all its lines converted to curves and all its contrasts bent with the lines. Nice work.

Blue and orange always seem to play well together don't they?

Thanks, Mike! It is indeed part of a collection either online or on display, and my choices had to do with a high contrast subset that I've been developing since the original collection was displayed. If I print/display these, I'll have to be cautious with the tonalities. The paper I use picks up the subtlest of tonalities if I make the right decisions on the front end.

Ah, the challenges of flat view. The look of this post is something I created, not a result of posts accumulating naturally. I copy the quotes out of each message posted about the image and assemble them into a response to my own initial image. Then I add my comments beneath each quote. It's the easiest/clearest way I've found to respond to everyone without creating a bunch of different posts and duplicating the image yet again a multitude of times. The highlight/quote feature is one of the hidden formatting bonuses we have here, but it took me a while to find it.

View from Napoleon's bridge

I just found this C&C thread and it looks interesting :-)

Probably a bit late in the week to enter an image here now, but I thought I'd give it a try.
This image was taken on a slighty misty morning in October 2021 on a hiking tour through part of Slovenia and then on into Italy.
The Soča valley is breathtakingly beautiful, but it’s especially nice with its Autumn colours on show.
I’ve printed this image quite big on canvas (120 x 80 cm) and have it hanging on my balcony wall, and see it almost every day.
I like it because it reminds me of a great tour, perhaps you like it too?

Great shot - looks like a wonderful place! I like the composition and how it incorporates both layers provided by the water and the meandering road. I live in a very similar environment but often times in these kind of small valleys there are no roads, which makes it harder to shoot when you don‘t have time for a hike…

This is glorious. It needs to be seen big to bring out the details. The textures on water, rocks, leaves and clouds can be explored over and over. Visually the parallels between the road and the river are quite magical as they both take us back into the background. While the background is lit up with sunlight, it doesn't distract. We have more than enough detail in the shadowed foreground for that foreground to hold its own. The sunlit area adds warmth and suggests it is worth heading in that direction. I also liked the clouds where the shapes sit comfortably with the hill contours.
I'd put it on my wall too.
I hope you have more for us.

The geometric patterns are the theme, but it is the stepped shadow, which makes such a difference, splitting the facade into more rectangular shapes, and does so without cutting across any of the windows.
The slivers of surrounding buildings are a little distracting at first sight, but on reflection, they add a frame and a sense of the crowded area of buildings.

Pete

There are lots of connections here. The bridges across the water, linking the dense growth on the banks and they are close enough and they seem to converge, giving the appearance that they too are linked. The two people are linked by their interest in fishing and so too their links to the water. The woman is linked by the perfect colour match of her boat to the man‘s fishing float, and from there by a leading fishing line to the man. Both are connected by the seeming contentment and tranquility they are experiencing. Although their surroundings look peaceful enough, the mix of brutal, functional engineering and the natural filigree chaos of nature creates an atmosphere of tension, which is offset by those two peaceful islands.

Pete

Welcome! We hope you'll come back again and share more images and your own ideas about the images you find here. This is certainly a wonderful opening shot so you'll have us watching to see what you do next!

This is surely a wall hanger and I bet it looks great printed on canvas. the muted fall colors are lovely. It's perfectly suited to the elongated portrait format you've chosen. The meandering parallel lines of the road and river are guiding our eye through the shadowed valley to the overlapping layers of hills/mountains with their outrageously beautiful light and color. The clouds are an extra bonus. Any Hudson school landscape painter would have set up in your chosen spot and created a masterpiece.

This is a wonderful image. Full of great detail with a perspective that just pulls the eye deeper and deeper.

Rich

I like both images here.

The B&W conversion of the first image is succesful in creating a sense of timelessness: I am pretty sure that this is an art installation that you photographed recently, but the resulting image looks like it could have been shot in the early 1940s or 1950s. I love that.

The further manipulated image, resulting in what looks like a glass marble or a swirl of icecream, is a joy. The only thing that gives away that this is a digital manipulation, and not the result of using a strange lens (or a good dose of hallucinogens) is the perfectly straight line halfway the image left. If you would turn your image any degree between 0 and 90 (but not 90, 180 or 270), this would be less apparent.

A big welcome to our weekly gathering, and I do hope that you will also make it a permanent fixture in your schedule.
As you have already seen, an image posted in the weekend will still get sufficient feedback, normally.
Only on Tuesday we are clearly winding down, mopping up, writing responses to comments or last comments on images and keeping our own image powder dry till the next Wednesday.

Please do participate with images, but certainly also with comments.
That is the whole point of the "peer-to-peer give and receive" philosophy.

Now about your image: that is a really attractive scene you present us.
Portrait orientation is not used as often for landscapes as ... well, landscape orientation, is.
But I am a big fan of the vertical and I personally use it for at least 50% of all my landscape shots (I have a portrait grip glued to my camera permanently).

Vertical orientation is often useful in better showing the layers of a landscape, create depth and pull the viewer onto a trip towards the horizon.
Your image does exactly all that. As viewers, we can choose to let ourselves drift on that river into the sun-drenched forests in the distance, or we can hike the road that snakes its way on the left, in the same direction.

The lines are complicated, but appear to have a pattern, like threads in a cloth, even if that is not the case.
The lines follow each other, but do not have a uniform brightness, which suggests depth and structure to our senses.
What is it? I don’t know, but it is interesting enough to spend time thinking and trying to decipher it and, on a wall, would probably give pleasure over a period of time far greater than a beautiful sunset, for instance, which is instantly recognisable and quickly analysed visually.

Pete

The lime green leaves really stand out against the magenta, giving a nice focus point.
I like the inclusion of the horizontal lines of the road and pavement, and the slivers of houses, which add a frame, and information about the place. The wavy fence is also a playful addition.

Pete

This is an incredibly successful manipulation. The ladders have been morphed into Daliesque structures and play well with their own shadows, and the wall is now a beautiful fan.
Luckily the space at the top has not become a circle, but a “6”, which is much more interesting, and the detail of the moon gives a good visual balance to the strong shapes below and to the right.
The colours are strong and complementary, and the shapes strong and intriguing.
The image is not obviously a photograph, and would also succeed as a painting.
Definitely one for the wall of a home or a gallery.

Pete

Many thanks to all the responders for your very positive and well thought out feedback about my first image posted here 😊
Glad you liked it too.
I posted it, then drove off toward Vienna to take my daughter, with a full car load, to her new student dorms.
There was an incredible storm on the way back! Would have been good to photograph that, but I didn’t dare get out of the car.
Anyway, back now, and time for me to add some comments about the other images here.

I am nowhere near as lyrical or good with words as the group here. Giving critique is an art form in itself
… but I’ll give it a go 😊

I often make photobooks from my holidays, or longer trips, and this is definitely a shot that would be added into such a book. (If I had taken it)
It speaks of relaxing, while enjoying the great view after a long ride. Something worth remembering !